If Only We Had Such Transparency
By skinnychef - Posted on February 3rd, 2010
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In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations unlimited contributions to political candidates, wouldn't it be nice if we had such transparency as to who gave what? It looks like Obama's got a little room on his right sleeve. You guys wanna pitch in and see if we can get on there?
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Google
[GOOG
]
531.12
-1.90
(-0.36%)
was
Obama's single biggest corporate donor, racking up $485,961 in
donations, compared to only $20,600 for John McCain. It's no accident
that Google is Obama's top donor, especially with a high profile
endorsement by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who appeared in the candidate's
infomercial recently. As for McCain's biggest corporate donor? That'd be Cisco Systems
[CSCO
]
23.02
0.29
(+1.28%)
,
where CEO John Chambers is a vocal supporter of McCain as a co-chairman
of his campaign. Employees there forked over $80,676 to McCain. But
those donations still didn't measure up to the $149,078 Cisco employees
also sent Obama's way.
Other notables? Apple Inc.
[AAPL
]
195.86
1.13
(+0.58%)
workers donated $98,023 for Obama and $16,950 for McCain; Hewlett-Packard
[HPQ
]
48.59
0.76
(+1.59%)
employees raised $148,057 for Obama, and $15,750 for McCain; Yahoo
[YHOO
]
15.17
0.12
(+0.8%)
workers represented the biggest gap in Obama's favor, raising $100,276 for Obama compared to the $4,050 for McCain. EBay
[EBAY
]
23.08
-0.09
(-0.39%)
sent
$46,660 to Obama, and $4,150 to McCain. That's a wide spread at
Hewlett-Packard where former CEO Carly Fiorina, a key McCain supporter,
apparently didn't wield much influence over her former charges. Same at
eBay where Meg Whitman, originally a big Mitt Romney supporter,
transitioned to the McCain camp.
Oracle
[ORCL
]
23.76
0.54
(+2.33%)
was
also a huge Obama donor: $134,421 for the Democratic candidate and
$36,586 for McCain. The only company among the top donors tilting in
McCain's favor? Sanmina-SCI, raising $250 for Obama, and $2,800 for
McCain.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/27537699
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http://retailindustry.about.com/od/famousretailers/a/retailpolitics.htm
contemporary American brands like Apple, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry’s,
and the three largest search engines in the world, Google, Yahoo, and
MSN openly embrace the “change” agenda of the Democratic Party. These
companies are “buck the status quo” organizations. If they didn’t vote
“green” with the democrats, they would likely suffer a loss of
reputation with their most fanatically loyal customers who are
renegades themselves
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* Michael L. Ainslie, CEO of Sotheby’s 1984-94
* Arthur Blank, Co-founder of Home Depot
* Maxine Clark, CEO of Build-a-Bear Workshop
* Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney, 1984-2005
* Alan Feldman, CEO of Midas
* Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft
* Stephen F. Gates, Former EVP Conoco-Phillips
* Jack M. Greenberg, CEO of McDonald’s 1998-2002
* Lawrence V. Jackson, Wal-Mart Executive
* Sidney Kimmel, CEO of Jones Apparel Group, 1975-2002
* James Kimsey, AOL’s founding CEO
* Philip Marineau, CEO of Levi Strauss, 1999-2006
* Norman S. Matthews, President and COO of Federated, 1987-88
* Thomas J. Meredith, CFO of Dell, 1992-2000
* George MrKonic, Jr., Former President of Borders
* Craig Newmark, Founder Craigslist
* Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko’s
* Dan Rosensweig, COO of Yahoo, 2002-2007
* Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks
* Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo, 2001-2007
* James Sinegal, CEO of Costco
* Tom Stemberg, Founder and CEO of Staples, Inc.
* Marvin Traub, CEO of Bloomingdale’s, 1978-1992
* George Zimmer, founder and CEO of Men’s Wearhouse
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